Fill this form to have the opportunity to join the New Generations platform: submissions will be reviewed on a daily-basis, and the most innovative practices will have the chance to be part of the media's coverage and participate in our cultural agenda, including events, research projects, workshops, exhibitions and publications.
New Generations is a European platform that investigates the changes in the architectural profession ever since the economic crisis of 2008. We analyse the most innovative emerging practices at the European level, providing a new space for the exchange of knowledge and confrontation, theory, and production.
Since 2013, we have involved more than 300 practices from more than 20 European countries in our cultural agenda, such as festivals, exhibitions, open calls, video-interviews, workshops, and experimental formats. We aim to offer a unique space where emerging architects could meet, exchange ideas, get inspired, and collaborate.
A project by Itinerant Office
Within the cultural agenda of New Generations
Editor in chief Gianpiero Venturini
Editorial team Pablo Ibáñez Ferrera
Copyediting and Proofreading Akshid Rajendran
If you have any questions, need further information, if you'd like to share with us a job offer, or just want to say hello please, don't hesitate to contact us by filling up this form. If you are interested in becoming part of the New Generations network, please fill in the specific survey at the 'join the platform' section.
CAN (Critical Architecture Network) is an award-winning architecture studio based in London that designs buildings, environments and installations, working with set designers, artists, engineers and makers to create unexpected and characterful projects. They begin every project with a rigorous analysis of it's cultural and physical context and a scrutiny of the brief.
The idea of the studio was formed quite a few years back and slowly evolved on the side of other work. It was an opportunity to explore ideas and concepts with different collaborators without the shackles of a singular office approach and way of working. The collaborators were almost always from different creative industries and I learnt as much about architecture from them as I did from architects, if not more. This eventually led to CAN and I hope we've managed to retain the same pluralistic approach to our projects.
90% of our work has come from us approaching clients/curators/developers we don't know with either a proposal or an invitation to coffee. There is this myth in architecture that if you are a good architect work will fall into your lap. This may be the case with more established firms but as a new practice if people don't know who you are you are never going to get a commission, no matter how good you are!
For me, the main driver to expand the practice is to get larger and more diverse projects. Variety is everything and I think it is important for the development of ideas which can inform different types of projects in different ways. Reality never quite meets expectations but I think if it did we wouldn't be being ambitious enough.
The immediate challenges centre around the virus crisis and adapting to remote working, trying to survive. Following that we want to grow to about 10 full-time staff which will give us enough capacity to take on the scale of work we want to do. There is a fine balance to be found which will give us the flexibility to keep our ideas fresh but also provide us with some semblance of financial stability.
Photography Jim Stephenson
Photography Tom Bowditch
Photography Andy Stagg